Are you backing up ADAM?/b/askds/archive/2009/02/17/are-you-backing-up-adam.aspxHi, it's Adam Conkle from the Microsoft Directory Services team. I recently encountered a disaster recovery situation with an ADAM instance where objects were accidentally deleted, and the customer required help performing the restore of those objectsMicrosoft&#39;s official AD support blog7.x ProductionRE: Are you backing up ADAM?http://blogs.technet.com/b/askds/archive/2009/02/17/are-you-backing-up-adam.aspxSat, 14 Mar 2009 01:16:41 GMTd5e57398-b9ef-4490-9955-07cbb4e4a80d:27986d88-1663-4d79-9741-3e73be23c939AdamConkle0<p>Hey tlb1234,</p>
<p>A few things to check:</p>
<p>1. When the backup completes there is a &quot;Report...&quot; button. Does that report show any errors? How many files does it say it backed up? Is that number consistent with the number of ADAM data files you have?</p>
<p>2. Run through the Restore Wizard of NTBackup and select the backup you took of Microsoft ADAM. Drill down to your ADAM data directory, do you see the .dit and edb.log files in the list? What happens if you execute the restore to an alternate location? Do you get the .dit and edb.log files restored?</p>
<p>3. Open Services.msc and find Volume Shadow Copy. The Startup Type should be set to Manual and Status is stopped. Start a new backup of your Microsoft ADAM directory and refresh the Services console a few times. Do you see the Volume Shadow Copy service Status change to Started?</p>
<p>4. Check the registry for the appropriate FilesNotToBackup entry for each of your ADAM instances (this is detailed in the blog post). Make sure that the path to the .dit and edb.log files are correct.</p>
<p>Thanks for the response!</p>
<p>Adam</p>
<img src="http://blogs.technet.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=3203755&AppID=5802&AppType=Weblog&ContentType=0" width="1" height="1">RE: Are you backing up ADAM?http://blogs.technet.com/b/askds/archive/2009/02/17/are-you-backing-up-adam.aspxFri, 13 Mar 2009 07:17:16 GMTd5e57398-b9ef-4490-9955-07cbb4e4a80d:27986d88-1663-4d79-9741-3e73be23c939tlb12340<p>Follow-up Question:</p>
<p>Although I do see the message &quot;Preparing to backup using shadow copy&quot;, I still suspect the .dit and edb.log file are not being backed up.</p>
<p>In the detailed backup listing, these two files are not listed and the number of bytes reported as backed up is only approximately 1200 bytes more than the sum of the bytes sizes of the files listed as having been backed up.</p>
<p>It doesn't seem that the .dit and edb.log files could be in the backup file?!?</p>
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